Grab a slice of pumpkin cheesecake and a glass of milk. Then, as you chow down, educate yourself with this pumpkin cheesecake trivia. 

• A pumpkin is a fruit. Most people think of it as a vegetable.
• The ancient Greeks invented cheesecake.
• The oldest known cheesecake recipe was written in Greece in 230 A.D.
• In 1872, Dairyman William Lawrence from Chester, New York accidentally invented cream cheese. He started out making Neufchâtel cheese. When he added cream to the mix, the result was a much richer and creamier cheese. He promptly and aptly named it “Cream Cheese”.
• Pumpkins are grown all over the world on six of the seven continents, with Antarctica being the sole exception. They are even grown in Alaska.
• In 1584 upon seeing it for the first time, a French explorer called them “gros melons. This translates into Latin as “pepon”, or a large melon. It wasn’t until the 17th century that American colonists first referred to them as pumpkins.
• Cheesecake is not actually a cake. It is more closely related to a tart.
• While we feel bad for people who don’t like pumpkin flavor, there are 13 other official cheesecake holidays. Certainly, there’s no shortage of cheesecake holidays for you to savor.
• Pumpkins are native to the Central America. So, the rest of the world did not have the opportunity to enjoy this fabulous fruit until after the New World was discovered.
• Pumpkins were once recommended as a cure for freckles.

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